Candlestick



(No Model.)

' H. E. LEWIS.-

OANDLESTIGK.

No. 379,171. PatentedMar. 6,1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICEs HIRAM E. LEWIS, OF GOLD HILL, NEVADA.

CANDLESTICK.

SPECIPICATIQIT forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,171, dated March 6, 1888.

Application tiled December 7, 1886. Serial No. 120,901. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HIRAM E. LEWIS, of

. Gold Hill, in the county of Storey and State of Nevada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Candlesticks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved automatic feed for candlesticks and lanterns, and seeks to provide a simple automatic construct ion by which to feed the candle upward as it burns down, so that the entire candle may be burned.

The invention consists in certain features of construction and novel combinations of parls, as will be described. 7

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of my improvement as in use, parts being broken away and others shown in section. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the follower; Fig. 3, a detail View of one of the levers, and illustrating the construction for supporting and actuating the same. i

The base or pan A may be of ordinary construction, as may also the candle-tube B, except in the particulars hereinafter described. 'Within the tube B, I place the spring 0, which bears between the base of said tube and the follower D. This follower is formed of a top or main portion, 1, and a central depending well, 2, the latter being of less diameter than top 1 and having an upper open and a closed lower end. The main portion of the follower bears in use under the candle, and has its edges extended outward to fit snugly the innerbore of the candle-tube, so that as the follower ascends it will scrape off all wax and grease that follower meets the said ring all wax, grease,

and the like will be cutout of the tube.

Openings 3 are cut through the tube B and ring E for the candle-clamping projections on the levers F. These levers, of which by preference I employ two, are in use arranged diametrically opposite each other on the outside of the tube, while the projections and are movable into the tube to clamp the candle therein, as will be understood from the drawings. To support and actuate these levers I employ the springs G, each formed with two side lengths or sections, formed, preferably, by bending a wire between its ends.

These side sections, are secured at their lower ends to tubeB, coiled between their ends at at, and have. their upper ends, 5, extended upward and inward toward each other. The levers are fulcrumed between their ends on the coils 4, and extend thence upward between and under the extensions 5, their upper endshaving the projections passed through openings 3 into the candle-tube.

By the described arrangement of springs and levers the springs serve as fulcra for as well as to actuate the levers.

In operation the levers F are pressed inward at their lower ends toward the tube B,

drawing their prongs out of said tube. Now a candle may be pressed into the mouth of the tube and onto the follower, which may be de pressed against its spring to any-desired degree, when the levers F are released and their prongs, will enter and hold the candle from being forced by spring 0 out of the tube. When the candle is burned down near to the prongs, the wax or tallow becomes softened and the spring 0 willgradually force the candle up until the prongs meet a harder body of wax, and such operation will continue as the candle burns until it is entirely consumed, when the end of the wick will fall into the well 2. Now this well 2, in addition to serving as a receptacle for the wick, also serves as a means for steadying the action of spring 0 on the follower by fitting down within the upper end of such spring, as shown most clearly in Fig. 1.

The invention may be used in lanterns, and will be found very useful in such connection.

By my invention it will be seen that a candle.

my invention, what or prongs thereon pass through openings 3 ing tube having a spring for actuating the candle, of a lever pivotally connected with said tube, and having a projection movable laterally into and out of the path of the candle, said projection having its inner end pointed, whereby it may enter the candle, and means for operating the lever, substantially as set forth.

2. A candlestick-tube having a ring, E fitted within it, and provided with openings 3, formed through said ring and tube, combined with the follower D, and spring arranged within the tube, and the pivoted springactuated levers having projections extended through openings 3 and movable into and out of the path of the candle, said projection having its inner end pointed, whereby itmay enter the candle, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of'the candle-tube provided with an opening, 3, the follower, the spring therefor, and a spring-actuated lever or levers pivotally supported and having a projection adapted to enter opening 3 into the v tube, and thereby to engage a candle, said projection having its inner end pointed, whereby it may enter the candle, substantially as set forth.

4. The coi'nbination of the candle-tube having an opening for the passage of the candlesecuring projection, a spring formed of two side lengths or sections secured at one end to the tube coiled between their ends, and having their opposite or free ends extended, and the lever fulcrumed on the coiled portions of said springs, extended thence between and under the free ends of the side section, and having a portion extended through the candletube, all substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with the candle-receiving tube having a spring for actuating the candle, ot' a projection connected with said tube and movable laterally into and out of the path of the candle at or near the mouth of the tube, said projection having its inner end pointed, whereby it may enter the candle, substantially as set forth.

HIRAM E. LEWIS.

Vitncsses:

JNo. O. BENNETT, W. H. BLAUVELT. 

